This is a previous draft of TURNER and HOOCH that has several writers names attached before we became involved. While some scenes remain in the final film, Jim and I made a lot of revisions during this project and eventually were awarded co-screenplay credit. Receiving credit after so many people have worked on a project is not only rare, but extremely difficult. To share credit, the second writer has to do at least 50% of the writing. In this case, I think it was more like 33% because there were so many writers and it was hard to determine who did the lion share of the work, so the credit was evenly divided. But it shows the huge amount of work that Him and I did on the project to receive credit.

On revisions, we were able to approach an existing project that was pretty much set in its ways and make big changes in character and story. We did this on THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS, TURNER and HOOCH, SISTER ACT, and ANACONDA. We failed to request credit on SISTER ACT due to some poor advice from our agent who felt the project was in trouble and we shouldn’t have our name attached.